SAGE has been a major force shaping the field of qualitative methods, not just in its specialist methods journals like Qualitative Inquiry but in the empirical journals such as Social Studies of Science. Delving into SAGEs deep backlist of qualitative research methods journals, Paul Atkinson and Sara Delmont, editors of Qualitative Research, have selected over 70 articles to represent SAGEs distinctive contribution to methods publishing in general and qualitative research in particular. This collection includes research from the past four decades and addresses key issues or controversies, such as: explanations and defences of qualitative methods; ethics; research questions and foreshadowed problems; access; first days in the field; field roles and rapport; practicalities of data collection and recording; data analysis; writing and (re) presentation; the rise of auto-ethnography; life history, narrative and autobiography; CA and DA; and alternatives to the logocentric (such as visual methods).
VOLUME ONE Editorial Introduction - Paul Atkinson and Sara Delamont A Stranger at the Gate - Nels Anderson The Past and the Future of Ethnography - Patricia Adler and Peter Adler Ethnography: Post, Past and Present - Paul Atkinson, Amanda Coffey and Sara Delamont The Interactional Study of Organisation - Robert Dingwall and Phil Strong Linking Data (extract) - Nigel Fielding and Jane Fielding Towards A Peopled Ethnography - Gary Alan Fine Beyond Groups - Japonica Brown-Saracino, Jessica Thurk and Gary Alan Fine Participant Observation in the Era of Ethnography - Herbert Gans On Fieldwork - Erving Goffman Erving Goffmans Sociological Legacies - John Lofland Analyzing Field Reality (extract) - Jaber Gubrium Accessing, waiting, plunging in, and writing: retrospective sense-making of fieldwork - Peter Magolda Exchange and Access in Field Work - Paul Gray From How to Why: On Luminous Description Pt 1 - Jack Katz From How to Why: On Luminous Description Pt 2 - Jack Katz Reminiscences of Classic Chicago: The Blumer-Hughes Talk - Lyn Lofland Towards a Critical Ethnography: A re-examination of the Chicago legacy - Jim Thomas Everett C. Hughes and the Development of Fieldwork in Sociology - Jean-Michel Chapoulie A Meta-Ethnographic Approach and The Freeman Refutation of Mead - George Noblit and R. Dwight Hare VOLUME TWO Stability and Flexibility - Patricia Adler and Peter Adler Ethnographic Evidence - Michael Agar The Hired Hand and the Lone Wolf: Issues in the use of Observers in Large-Scale Program Evaluation - Carl Florez and George Kelling Four Ways to Improve the Craft of Fieldwork - Robert Emerson Deja Entendu: The Liminal Qualities of Anthropological Fieldnotes - Jean Jackson Photostudy - Alan Radley and Diane Taylor Educational Ethnography as Performance Art: Towards a Sensuous Feeling and Knowing - Carl Bagley Discipline and the Material Form of Images - Michael Lynch Understanding Urban Life: The Chicago legacy - Lyn Lofland Street Phenomenology: The Go-Along as Ethnographic Research Tool - Margarethe Kusenbach "Just another Native?" Soundscapes, Chorasters, and Borderlands in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada - Brett Lashua Doing Research in Cyberspace - David Jacobson How I Learned What a Crock Was - Howard Becker Ten Lies of Ethnography: Moral Dilemmas of Field Research - Gary Alan Fine Problems in the Field: Participant Observation and the Assumption of Neutrality - Jeffrey Cohen Collecting Data from Elites and Ultra-Elites - Neil Stephens The Ubiquity of Ambiguity in Research Interviewing: An Exemplar - Cynthia Cannon Poindexter Referencing as Persuasion - Nigel Gilbert Contradictions of Feminist Methods - Sherry Gorelick Jurors Use of Judges Instructions - James Holstein VOLUME THREE Notes on the Nature and Development of General Theories - Anselm Strauss Grounded Theory Method - Merilyn Annells Analytic Ordering for Theoretical Purposes - Juliet Corbin and Anselm Strauss Rediscovering Glaser - Kath Melia Grounded Theory: Evolving Methods - Linda Robrecht Premises, Principles and Practices in Qualitative Research: Revisiting the Foundations - Kathy Charmaz Two Cases of Ethnography: Grounded Theory and the Extended Case Method - Iddo Tavory and Stefan Timmermans Five Misunderstandings about Case-Study Research - Bent Flyberrg The Personal is Political - Sherryl Kleinman Qualitative Data Analysis - Amanda Coffey, Beverly Holbrook and Paul Atkinson A Comment on Coffey et al - Raymond Lee and Neil Fielding The Art(fulness) of Open-Ended Interviewing: Some Consdiderations on Analysing Interviews - Timothy John Rapley Doing Narrative Analysis - Catherine Riessman Narrative Turn or Blind Alley? - Paul Atkinson Narrative in Social Work: A Critical Review - Catherin Kohler Riessman and Lee Quinney The Use of Discovery Accounts - S. W. Woolgar Beyond the Fetichism of Words: Considerations on the use of the Interview to Gather Chronic Illness Narratives - Nathan Miczo When Discourse is Torn from Reality: Bakhtin and the Principle of Chronotopicity - Stuart Allan Having, and Being had by, "Experience": Or, "Experience in the Social Sciences after the Discursive/Poststructuralist Turn" - Bronwyn Davies and Cristyn Davies Immersion vs. Analytic Ideals and Appendix - Sherryl Kleinman and Martha Copp (No) Trial (but) Tribulations: When Courts and Ethnography Conflict - Rik Scarce VOLUME FOUR Whose Side Was Becker On? - Martyn Hammersley Handing IRB an Unloaded Gun - Carol Rambo Ethics and the Practice of Qualitative Research - Ian Shaw Becoming Participant: Problematizing Informed Consent in Participatory Research with Young People in Care - Emma Renold, Sally Holland, Nicola Ross, and Alexandra Hillman Researching Researchers: Lessons for Research Ethics - Rose Wiles, Vikki Charles, Graham Crow and Sue Heath Reembodying Qualitative Inquiry - Margarete Sandelowski Gender, Disembodiment and Vocation: Exploring the Unmentionables of British Academic Life - David Mills and Mette Louise Berg Ethnographying Public Memory: The Commemorative Genre for the Victims of Terrorism in Italy - Anna Lisa Tota Unsettling Engagements - Charles Fruehling Springwood and C. Richard King Data Presentation and the Audience - Carol Warren Can We Re-Use Qualitative Data Via Secondary Analysis? Notes on some Terminological and Substantive Issues - Martyn Hammersley (Re)Using Qualitative Data? - Niamh Moore Whose Cornerville is it, anyway? - Norman Denzin Trash on the Corner - Laurel Richardson The Gold Coast and the Slum Revisited: Paradoxes in Replication Research and the Study of Social Change - Albert Hunter Methods of Writing Patriarchy - Dorothy Smith Analytic Autoethnography - Leon Anderson Comments on Setting Criteria for Experimental Writing - Patricia Ticineto Clough Knowing your Place: Gender and Reflexivity in two Ethnographies - Fiona Gill and Catherine Maclean Storying Schools: Issues around Attempts to Create a Sense of Feel and Place in Narrative Research Writing - Pat Sikes Feminist Ethnography: Storytelling that Makes a Difference - Patricia McNamara Quality Issues in Qualitative Inquiry - Clive Seale Emerging Criteria for Quality in Qualitative and Interpretive Inquiry - Yvonna Lincoln New Methods, Old Problems: A Sceptical View of Innovation in Qualitative Research - Max Travers